On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 12:47:17PM +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we found a regression in ksh. Exporting a variable affects its attributes:
>
> $ typeset -Z2 foo=3
> $ echo $foo
> 03
> $ typeset -p foo
> typeset -Z 2 -R 2 foo=03
> $ export foo
> $ echo $foo
> 3
> $ typeset -p foo
> typeset -x -Z 1 -R 1 foo=3
>
> last working version is 2009-06-30, first broken version is
> 2009-09-08. Let me know if you need more information.
>
> Michal
A similar report here:
ksh> typeset -Z4 VAR1
ksh> typeset | grep VAR1
zerofill 4 rightjust 4 VAR1
ksh> VAR1=1
ksh> typeset | grep VAR1
zerofill 4 rightjust 4 VAR1
ksh> echo $VAR1
0001
ksh> export VAR1
ksh> typeset | grep VAR1
export zerofill 1 rightjust 1 VAR1
ksh> echo $VAR1
1
if exported first the it works
ksh> export VAR2
ksh> typeset -Z4 VAR2
ksh> typeset | grep VAR2
export zerofill 4 rightjust 4 VAR2
ksh> VAR2=1
ksh> echo $VAR2
0001
Werner
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